Adding a Scale Displayer in a Chart

A chart uses one abscissa scale and as many ordinate scales as you want. The type of scales that can be used for a given chart depends on the type of the projection used in the chart.

The following table shows the scales that can be used with a Cartesian chart:


Chart type	Cartesian
Projection used	Cartesian -> IlvCartesianProjector
Scale Displayers: Abscissa Coordinate Ordinate Coordinate(s)	Rectangular -> IlvRectangularScaleDisplayer Rectangular -> IlvRectangularScaleDisplayer

The following table shows the scales that can be used with a polar chart:


Chart type	Polar
Projection used	Polar -> IlvPolarProjector
Scale Displayers: Abscissa Coordinate Ordinate Coordinate(s)	Circular -> IlvCircularScaleDisplayer Rectangular -> IlvRectangularScaleDisplayer

If the chart that you have created is an instance of the IlvChartGraphic class, no scale displayers are created by default.

If the chart that you have created is an instance of a subclass of the IlvChartGraphic class (that is, IlvCartesianChart or IlvPolarChart), two scale displayers are already created by default (one for the abscissa coordinate and one for the main ordinate coordinate):

Two IlvRectangularScaleDisplayer objects are created by default for an IlvCartesianChart object.

One IlvCircularScaleDisplayer object and one IlvRectangularScaleDisplayer object are created by default for an IlvPolarChart object.

The following method is available to set by hand the abscissa scale displayer of a given chart:

virtual void setAbscissaScale(IlvSingleScaleDisplayer* scale)

Similarly, several methods are available to set by hand the ordinate scale displayer(s) that you want to be used by a given chart.

To add an ordinate scale displayer, use the following method:

void addOrdinateScale(IlvAbstractScaleDisplayer* scale)

The ordinate scale displayer is added at the end of the list of the ordinate scale displayers that are already defined, if any.

To insert an ordinate scale at a given index in the list of ordinate scale displayers that are already defined, use the following method:

virtual void insertOrdinateScale(IlvAbstractScaleDisplayer* scale,

To set the ordinate scale displayer at a given index in the list of ordinate scale displayers, use the following method:

If a scale displayer is already defined at this index, this scale displayer is replaced by the new one.


Note: When several ordinate scale displayers are defined for a given chart, the corresponding scales are drawn in the order of the indexes.